Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files

From:

Tom Tromey

Subject:

Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files

Date:

09 Jul 2002 12:01:32 -0600

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>>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
Akim> BTW, Automake still does not take full advantage of the current
Akim> config.status. It could perfectly well have foo/Makefile have a
Akim> trampoline to top_builddir/Makefile which would recreate all the
Akim> obsolete Makefile (and config.h etc.) at once:
How do we know which ones are out of date?
We could just always run `./config.status' and rebuild everything.
We've always avoided that on performance and historical grounds.
Tom